What Is Wisdom Quotes

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible.

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.